The Anti Armed robbery squad deployed to the Eastern Region by the acting Inspector General of Police Dr. George Akuffo Dampare has arrested 22 suspects including a Fulani Chief in Donkorkrom in the Afram Plains in possession of weapons cache and ammunition.
The weapons retrieved are; one foreign pistol, three locally manufactured pistols, four single-barrel shotguns, 66 live AAA and BB cartridges, eleven 410 cartridges, ten 7.65mm ammunition, 17 machetes, and two daggers. Police also retrieved 19 mobile phones.
Police reports said, on August 28, 2021, at about 1:00pm, the Anti Robbery operational team at Donkorkrom led by DSP Lovelace Kofi Glago in a joint exercise with personnel from the Donkorkrom Division and District upon tip-off intercepted and arrested the suspects who were onboard Toyota Tacoma pick up with registration number AW 983-20, Ford Pick Up with registration number GE 7066-11 and motor tricycle with registration number M-21-EN 635, at Donkorkrom township in front of Glory Oil Filling station.
It added that the weapons and ammunition were retrieved upon a search conducted on the suspects and the pick-up vehicle they were onboard.
A search was extended to the rooms of suspect Iddrisa Sambo and Issaka Ali at Donkorkrom Zongo where twelve (12) BB cartridges were found in one of the rooms of Idrissa Sambo.
The suspects who are all Fulanis are; 51-year-old Fulani Chief Sariki Iddrisa Sambo, Issaka Ali,37, Mohammed Abubakari, 27, Ibrahim Abubakari, 20, Alhaji Omaru,47, and Mohammed Bello, 28.
The rest are Mohammed Abubakari Jamallah, 40 , Omaru Bawah, 23 , Alhaji Mohammadu, 42, Osmanu Mohammadu, 35 ,Osmanu Omaru, 31, Osmanu Omaru Dandahle, 30, Osmanu Ibrahim, 38, Aliu Omaru, 30, Abass Omaru, 21, Sule Omaru, 20 , Ali Waale, 20 , Ibrahim Ali, 20, Omaru Balla, Waale Sindo, 49 , Osmanu Abubakari, 28, and Abdulai Mesaiji 29.
He said they will be arraigned before court subsequently.
